• 한국연소학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.46-52
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• 2017

High-frequency combustion instabilities may occur during the development of feasible engine combustors. These instabilities can result in irreparable damages to the wall of combustors or the degradation of engine performance. So, it is essential to identify injectors that have high stability characteristics during the early stages of development. The objective of present study was to assess the stability of coaxial injectors and an impinging injector with different recess lengths in order to develop stable injectors optimally. Stability margin was evaluated based on the distance from operating condition to the unstable regions. A simulating combustion test method was used to analyze the stability of injectors. A small-scale combustion chamber was designed to simulate the first tangential acoustic mode of the actual combustor. Gaseous oxygen and a mixture of methane and propane were used as simulant propellants to satisfy their flow similarity to the actual propellants of a combustor in a liquid rocket combustor. The results indicated that injectors having small recess lengths showed relatively large combustion stability margins. For the injectors of large recess lengths, instability regions with large and super-large amplitude oscillations were observed. Thus, injector with shorter recess lengths had a higher stability than that of longer one due to the different mixing processes.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2014년도 제49회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 초록집
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• pp.153-156
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• 2014

This study was aimed to assess combustion stability for coaxial swirl injector and FOOF impinging injector which would be candidates in liquid rocket engine combustors. Simulating combustion tests under atmospheric condition have been conducted by gaseous oxygen and the mixture of methane and propane, using two actual injectors. By analyzing the measured dynamic pressure signals, we have evaluated the combustion stability margin of both injectors by drawing a stability map.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.60-66
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• 2014

액체로켓엔진 연소기의 연소안정성을 평가하기 위한 방법으로 연소 시 외부 교란을 공급하여 안정성 특성을 확인하는 방법이 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 연소기의 연소안정성 평가시험을 위한 펄스건 기폭시험에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 비연소조건에서 펄스건 기폭시험을 수행하여 압력파의 강도를 확인함으로써 펄스건의 장약량을 결정하였다. 동일한 연소기 헤드에서 펄스건이 적용되지 않은 14번의 연소시험 동안 연소불안정이 나타나지 않았지만, 펄스건이 적용된 두 번의 탈설계점 조건에서는 연소불안정 현상이 발생하였다. 이로부터 펄스건을 이용한 기폭시험이 연소안정성 평가의 방법이 될 수 있음을 확인하였으며, 연소안정성 판정을 위한 연소시험 횟수를 줄일 수 있는 방법임을 제시하였다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2009

분사기 배열 및 벽면 냉각 방식이 다르게 설계된 30톤급 재생냉각 두 연소기에 대한 연소시험이 수행되었다. 본 논문에서는 연소시험 결과 중 연소안정성에 대한 내용을 분석, 제시하였다. 연소안정성 평가를 위해 압력 섭동의 크기 및 SRT 결과를 검토하였으며, 두 연소기 모두 연소안정성 측면에서 매우 만족스러운 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 압력 섭동의 RMS 값은 연소실 압력 대비 3% 미만의 값을 나타내었으며, SRT 결과에서도 외부 가진에 의한 압력 peak의 감쇠시간은 기준 감쇠시간의 10% 정도로 짧게 나타났다. 막냉각이 적용된 연소기의 경우 벽면 냉각용 분사기가 최외곽 열에 배치된 연소기에 비해 압력 섭동의 RMS 값이 감소하는 결과를 보였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.67-75
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• 2002

A study to investigate the influence of combustion chamber shape, especially piston top face configuration, on the combustion stability is presented with CFD analysis and single cylinder GDI engine test. Initial configuration of the piston bowl was designed with CFD analysis and further parametric studies of the design factors on the piston top face were carried out through the single cylinder GDI engine test. It was found that both the geometry of piston top face and the compression ratio have great influences on the combustion stability. Of interest is that the design factors of the GDI piston to prevent mixture diffusion out of the piston bowl have important roles for the stable combustion at the stratified mixture condition. Also the relationship between spray impingement and flow pattern in a GDI piston bowl should be considered to design an optimal bowl configuration for stable stratified combustion.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.1821-1832
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• 2005

This study realizes the conceptual method to predict combustion instability in actual full-scale combustion chamber of rocket engines by experimental tests with model (sub-scale) chamber. The model chamber was designed based on the methodologies proposed in the previous work regarding geometrical dimensions and operating conditions, and hot-fire test procedures were followed to obtain stability boundaries. From the experimental tests, two instability regions are presented by the parameters of combustion-chamber pressure and mixture (oxidizer/fuel) ratio, which are customary for combustor designers. It is found that instability characteristics in the chamber with the adopted jet injectors can be explained by the correlation between the characteristic burning or mixing time and the characteristic acoustic time: In each instability region, dynamic behaviors of flames are investigated to verify the hydrodynamically-derived characteristic lengths of the jet injectors. Large-amplitude pressure oscillation observed in upper instability region is found to be generated by lifted-off flames.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2012년도 제44회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 초록집
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• pp.77-78
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• 2012

To predict combustion instability in actual full-scale combustion chamber of rocket engines, air-injection test is proposed with scaling techniques. From the data, damping factors have been obtained as a function of hydraulic parameter and the data give us instability map. Two instability regions are presented and it is found that they coincide reasonably with them from hot-fire test with full-scale flow rates. Accordingly, the proposed approach can be applied cost-effectively to stability rating of jet injectors when mixing of fuel and oxidizer jets is the dominant process in instability triggering.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.874-881
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• 2006

Combustion stability characteristics in actual full-scale combustion chamber of a rocket engine are investigated by experimental tests with the model (sub-scale) chamber. The present hot-fire tests adopt the combustion chamber with three configurations of triplet impinging-jet injectors such as F-O-O-F, F-O-F, and O-F-O configurations. Combustion stability bound-aries are obtained and presented by the parameters of combustion-chamber pressure and mixture (oxidizer/fuel) ratio. From the experimental tests, two instability regions are observed and the pressure oscillations have the similar patterns irrespective of injector configuration. But, the O-F-O injector configuration shows broader upper-instability region than the other configurations. To verify the instability mechanism for the lower and upper instability regions, air-purge acoustic test is conducted and the photograph or the flames is taken. As a result, it is found that the pressure oscillations in the two regions can be characterized by the first impinging point of hydraulic jets and pre-blowout combustion, respectively.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2005

액체로켓엔진 개발에서 필수 단계인 연소안정성 확인을 위한 연소안정성 평가시험(stability rating test) 방법의 개발을 위해서는 압력교란장치의 특성과 더불어 안전한 연소시험 절차(sequence)의 확립이 필수적이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 연소안정성 평가시험을 위해 개발된 펄스건을 액체로켓엔진의 연소시험에 실제로 적용하기 위한 단계로서, 적절한 연소 시험 절차를 개발/검증하고자 하였다. 먼저 펄스건을 실제로 연소실 외벽에 장착하게 되는 압력파 유도장치를 설계하고, 펄스건의 오작동을 방지하기 위한 압력파 유도장치 내부의 냉각시스템의 설계 및 시험을 수행하였다. 이러한 일련의 연소시험 단계를 통하여 실물형 액체로켓엔진에서의 연소안정성 평가시험이 가능한 적절한 시험 단계를 국내 독자적으로 개발하는데 성공하였다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2005년도 제25회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.240-246
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• 2005

현재 개발 중에 있는 30-tonf-class 실물형 액체로켓연소기는 이미 설계검증을 위해 수차례의 연소시험이 이루어졌으며 그 결과 높은 연소효율을 얻었다. 연소성능과 더불어 액체로켓연소기의 중요한 또 하나의 요소는 바로 연소안정성이다. 연소안정성에 대한 평가시험은 개발하고자 하는 액체로켓연소기의 연소불안정 발생 빈도를 파악하는 시험으로서 액체로켓연소기 개발시 꼭 확인해야하는 시험이라 할 수 있다. 펄스건을 이용한 스테인레스 스틸 재질의 임시 배플이 장착된 실물형 연소기의 연소안정성 평가시험은 성공적으로 수행되었으며 그 결과 우수한 연소안정성 특성을 얻었다. 시험결과는 다음 호기의 실물형 연소기 배플 설계에 활용될 예정이다.